Continuing the Journey

Today, we announced that we’ve raised another $25M in capital from Foundry Group, Baird Capital, Shea Ventures and Blue Note Ventures.

At FullContact, our mission is to help the world fully connect, master its contacts, and be awesome with people. This capital helps us achieve our mission. That, and it helps pay for a lot of Paid Paid Vacations. :-)

That’s pretty good for something one investor told me was “a feature.”

Now, five years later, FullContact is THE dominant contact management platform in the market. (Note: If you’re not using FullContact, you really should sign up.)

So, this fundraising event is a good milestone to celebrate.

But every entrepreneur should never forget – fundraising events are only milestones and don’t guarantee success in the long run. All it means is that you have the resources – capital – to execute on your plan.

Building a company from scratch is a long, spectacularly difficult journey that’s not for the faint of heart. In fact, even though I’ve made the journey a few times, sometimes I think it’s damn near impossible.